Interventions for Substance Use Disorder

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Interventions for Substance Use Disorder (3HR)

$45.00

Course Description

This training is designed to equip you with effective, evidence-based strategies for working with clients struggling with substance use. This training will explore a range of intervention approaches, including motivational interviewing, harm reduction, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and trauma-informed care. You will learn how to assess readiness for change, address co-occurring mental health concerns, and navigate the complexities of relapse prevention. You will gain the skills needed to support clients in developing healthier coping mechanisms and fostering long-term recovery in a compassionate, client-centered manner.

Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to:

Identify the range of interventions available for substance use disorder
Analyze how to choose which interventions to use
Implement interventions that are trauma-focused

Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.

For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 3 hours of Clinical continuing education training.

Course Instructor: Dreya Blume, LCSW

Recording Date: 08/02/2025

Course Format

NBCC ACEP # 7091, CE Training Workshops has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #7091. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. CE Training Workshops is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CE Training Workshops designates this continuing education activity for 3 continuing education hours.

CE Training Workshops, LLC, #1770, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/02/2025 to 08/02/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical continuing education credits.

Meet Your Facilitator

Dreya Blume, LCSW, has traveled a long and winding road to arrive where she is today,as a therapist, coach, author, and group facilitator.

She has taught English in Thailand, Japan, Australia, and Hawaii. She has worked in psychiatric wards, served as a case manager, and eventually launched her own private therapy practice.

She has taught part-time as an adjunct professor for over twenty years, led multi-day international retreats, and written seventeen books, with an eighteenth on the way.

Syllabus

Objective 1: Identifying Interventions for Substance Use Disorder
• Identify the range of interventions available for substance use disorder
• Motivational Interviewing
• Cognitive-based strategies
• Somatic-based strategies

Objective 2: Selecting Appropriate Interventions
• Analyze how to choose which interventions to use
• Applying the Stages of Change model
• Assessing client readiness
• Identifying client strengths

Objective 3: Implementing Trauma-Focused Interventions
• Implement interventions that are trauma-focused
• The link between trauma and substance use
• Practical strategies
• EMDR and Narrative Therapy

Objective 4: Course Closure
• Summary/Q&A